How To Install clipit on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install clipit on Kali Linux.

What is clipit

clipit is:

Clipboard manager with features such as:

• Save history of your last copied items
• Search through the history
• Global hotkeys for most used functions
• Execute actions with clipboard items
• Exclude specific items from history

ClipIt was forked from Parcellite and adds many bugfixes and features to the project.

Diodon is a replacement for ClipIt, which is no longer supported.

This package may be safely removed after the migration to Diodon is complete.

There are three methods to install clipit on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install clipit Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install clipit using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install clipit

Install clipit Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install clipit using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install clipit

Install clipit Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install clipit using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install clipit

How To Uninstall clipit on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the clipit package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove clipit

Uninstall clipit And Its Dependencies

To uninstall clipit and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove clipit

Remove clipit Configurations and Data

To remove clipit configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge clipit

Remove clipit configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove clipit configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge clipit

Dependencies

clipit have the following dependencies:

• libayatana-appindicator3-1
• libc6
• libglib2.0-0
• libgtk-3-0
• libpango-1.0-0
• libx11-6
• xdotool
• zenity
• diodon

References

• clipit website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install clipit package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.